1. By what means do people create antinomies to truth according to the authors of this reading?
Truth is ugly - we hate it, we fear it.
Truth is beauty, beauty is truth.
Antinomy: 1. A contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules. 2. A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally reasonable and necessary; a paradox.
2. What point are these authors making? Do you agree?
The central idea, that we need to protect rationality, well-conducted enquiry (research), evidence, inference, warrant, justification, science, and truth; in order to find “truth”, because these are the pursuits of truth.
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1. By what means do people create antinomies to truth according to the authors of this reading?
Truth is ugly - we hate it, we fear it.
Truth is beauty, beauty is truth.
Antinomy: 1. A contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules.
2. A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally reasonable and necessary; a paradox.
2. What point are these authors making? Do you agree?
The central idea, that we need to protect rationality, well-conducted enquiry (research), evidence, inference, warrant, justification, science, and truth; in order to find “truth”, because these are the pursuits of truth.